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7 A ?he ?orhuiUc inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: j THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 6. 1S81.1 How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or post office money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free ot postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other suoscribt rs the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "addresslabel" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the (late must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscription, advertising and job work, are cash in advance. THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. This body adjourned sine die 011 the morning of Friday, the 24th of December, after having l?een in session for twenty-six days. A large amount of business was disposed of during the session, and the members, instead of occupying the time with long-winded seeches, employed it in earnest work, which is shown by the long list of Acts and Joint Resolutions passed during the session. In this issue of the Enquirer, we lay before our readers a list of the captions of such of the Acts and Joint Resolutions, passed at the recent session, as are of general and local interest, and also the full text of several Acts. The principal matters which have l>een referred to Commissions and postponed for consideration by the General Assembly at its next session, are the election laws, the pro{>ositions to amend the Constitution, the railroad laws, and the tax laws. The Commissions to which these matters are referred, are constituted as follows: Commission to consider and suggest constitutional amendments : * On the part of the House, Messrs. C. II. Simonton, Jas. Aldrich, George Johnstone, J. J. Hemphill and J. M. Johnson. On the part of the Senate, Senators Wylie, Witherspoon and Izlar. Commission to inquire into the subject of discrimination by common carriers. On the part of the House, Messrs. J. C. Haskell, Jas. Simons, H. H. Newton. On the part of the Senate, Senators Smvthe and Galliard. Commission to suggest changes in the election laws. On the part of the House, Messrs. E. B. Murray, Edward McCrady, C. J. Hutson, J. W. Gray and Andrew Crawford. On the part of the Senate, Senators Perry, Lartigue and Maxwell. The Legislature appropriated $.".,000 for the expenses of having the State represented at Yorktown Centennial, which takes place next October, and elected representatives from among the members of the Legislature, Trom each Congressional District as follows: First District?J. Ilarvey Wilson, of Sumter ; J. W. Williamson of Darlington ; W. W. llarllee, of Marion. Second District?James Simons, of Charleston ; Augustus Fludd, of Orangeburg; James F. Izlar, of Orangeburg. Third District?E. M. Rucker, of Anderson ; C. M. Taggart, of Abbeville ; B. F. Crayton, of Anjlerson. Fourth District?J. J. Hemphill, of Chester; John R. Harrison, of Greenville ; L. J. Patterson, of Kershaw. Fifth District?C. E. Sawyer, of Aiken ; W. B. Rice, of Barnwell; J. W Moore, of Hampton. Gen. John Bratton, of Fairfield, was elected CinbpTi'oiTel'-G^'n^rifl^ Iii piace of Col. Coltro signed. Col. Thomas J. Lipscomb was unanimously re-elected Superintendent of the Penitentiary. The following are the newly elected Directors : B. II. Massey, of York; Clinton Ward, of Edgefield ; E. S. Allen, of Spartanburg. Previous to the adjournment of the Legislature, it was found necessary to increase the State tax levy to five mills, in order to provide the means for enlarging and improving the lunatic asylum. The tax levy in York county will be 12^ mills, as follows : For State purposes, 5 mills; school purposes, 2 mills; county purposes, !i mills ; railroad bonds, 2$ mills. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. In the Senate, on the 20th ultimo, the House resolution for a recess from the 22nd of December until the 5th instant, was agreed to. The bill to ]>ension soldiers who served in the Mexican war was made the special order for January 8th. In the House, Mr. Turner, of Kentucky, in V.J11 i. - ^4. * 1 3 uuuuceu <i uux iu prevent irauu unu corruptiou ill the election of President and VicePresident, Senators and Representatives. It provides that before entering on their duties, the President and Vice-President elect and all ]>ersons elected to either House of Congress, shall take an oath that they have not procured or attempted to procure their election by bribery or fraud, and that they will not during their term of office permit any assessment on employes of the United States fo? election or political purposes. The bill was referred. Mr. Price, of Iowa, under the direction of the committee on banking and currency, moved to susi>end the rules, take from the calendar and pass the bill regaling the check stamp law. After considerable discussion, the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was rejected?yeas, 129; nays, t>8; not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. in the Senate on the 21st, bills were introduced and referred as follows: To authorize the issue of legal tender notes of the United States upon deposits of gold; to re{>eal all laws which imi>ose taxes on capital or deposits with banks and bankers, and 011 bank checks ; for the admission of New Mexico as a State ; for the improvement of certain rivers in Georgia. The Vice-President submitted a communication from the commissioner of pensions, setting forth the necessity for a further appropriation of $18,000,000 for the payment of pensions during the current fiscal year. In the House, during a discussion of the funding bill, Mr. "Weaver, of Iowa, late Greenback candidate for President, made a humorous speech, arraigning the Democratic party for inconsistency 011 financial questions, and the discussion soon drifted into a noisy and irregular dispute as to which party is responsi ble for the demonetization of silver, and which I party should have the credit for its remoneti- j zation. A i>ersonal controversy soon sprang up between Mr. Sparks, of Illinois, and Mr. I "Weaver, as to the latter's veracity. Weaver ! declared no one could insult him intentionally j by ascribing falsehood to him, without feeling the force of his (Weaver's) right arm. [Laugh-1 ter and uproar.J Sparks replied: "What I said is that you were stating what was not J true and that you were wanting in the qualities of a gentleman.'' Weaver, (now thor- j oughlji angry and excited): "I denounce the I gentleman, personally, as a liar, on the floor of the House.'' Sparks, (equallyexcited): "You j are a scoundrel and a villain.'' Weaver, | thereupon, (amid great uproar), left the place i where he was standing and advanced, me-: nacingly, towards Sparks, who, in his turn, | moved toward Weaver; but both were imme-! diately surrounded by members who prevented , them getting to close quarters, and made them J put on their coats, which each was in the act j of pulling off. This, of course., occasioned the greatest confusion, and disorder prevailed ' on the floor and in the galleries. But in the ' < midst of it, the Speaker took the chair and j 1 called upon the Sergeant-at-Arms to do his j1 duty. Just then, however, there was nothing < particular to be doffe by that official, as the ! combatants had been taken back to their ] places by their respective friends, and there < was 110 danger of their assaulting each other. After the disorder had subsided, Mr. Covert ] resumed the chair, the committee arose and the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 22nd, on motion of Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, the Senate bill authorizing the auditing of accounts of B. S. James, a South Carolina mail Contractor, was taken up and passed. A bill to incorporate ] the Maritime Canal Company, of Nicarauga, : was introduced and referred. The Senate adjourned to January 5th. The proceedings of the House were devoted 1 to discussing ]>oints of order relative to the disorderly conduct of Messrs. Sparks and Weaver 011 the preceding day; when finally | they were permitted to apologize to the House. 1 The army bill, appropriating $2(5,425.800, was reported and ordered printed. The House then adjourned until the 5th of January. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The President has appointed Samuel T. Poinier, postmaster at Spartanburg. ? The increase in the* net earnings of the railroads in South Carolina for 1880, were 8440,851.70 over 1870. ? Mr. James X Knox, a much esteemed citizen of Chester county, died at his residence in that county 011 the 51st ultimo, in the 74th year of his age. ? It is rumored that very soon a newspaper will be published in Greenville to advocate Republican principles from a "Conservative" standpoint. The projectors claim to have a satisfactory financial support secured. ? A tract of land in Orangeburg county, which in the days of Radicalism sold for ?(5.000, is now sought for at ?80,000. Another piece, bought at the same time for $100, will now command $800. ? By an approximate statement of the population of the States, according to the last census, just published by the su|>erintendent, it appears that South Carolina has a population of 995,700. The population of Charleston is given as 49,999. ? The Laurens Railroad was sold in Columbia on Monday last, at public auction, for $30,000. It was knocked down to Col. A. C. Ilaskell, tlie president of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, who it is said bought it for the owners of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. ? The Barnwell jail now contains twentythree prisoners, and among them is a colored minister, who being persuaded that his neighbor's hog ]>ossessed one of the seven devils of old, thought he would destroy the devil in the hog by killing it and dividing among his wives, of which he has several. ? Mr. E. Glass Caston died at Rock Hill on the Kith ultimo, of typhoid pneumonia. He was a native of Lancaster county, where he lived until a few year?> ago. He was about tiO years old. The Lancaster Ledger says he was a man of remarkable intellect and great energy. He happened to the unfortunate accident of having botl* of his eyes put out by the explosion of powder, while firing a national salute on the 4th of July, 1840. ? The Cheraw and Chester Railroad has l>een completed to Lancaster. The Ledger of the 22nd ultimo says: "The passenger train on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad ran into town for the first time on Saturday night last. A large number of citizens, both male and fe-. male, were present to witness this event in the bf-fory of our town and county, and which was appropriately celebrated by the firing of cannon, guns, pistols, and fire crackers." NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Carolina Central Railway Company has a passenger rate of three cents i>er mile, each way, for return tickets from any station. ? At Charlotte, on the 21st ultimo, S. J. Rowland, yard-master at the Air-Line depot, was crushed l>etween two cars. He was a native of Central, S. C., and about twenty years 01(1. ? In Pender county, the sheriff elect, Eli Williams, Republican, being unable to give a satisfactory bond, the office was declared vacant, and Capt. A. C. Ward, the defeated Democratic candidate, was appointed to till the office. ? Arthur Armour, the first settler where Davidson College now stands, died at his residence there on the 20th ultimo. On one occasion, several years ago, wishing to visit his native country, Ireland, he walked from his home to New York, and on returning to New York walked from that city to his home. ? Henry E. Nelson was appointed postmaster at Greenville, Pitt county, last February. In August he discovered that his accounts with the government were short, and he absconded. lie was arrested at Hudson, N. Y., two weeks ago, as a vagrant, and is now in Raleigh jail. He is a defaulter-to the amount of $1,^KOO, and will be tried at Newbern next April. ? On the 2Jrd ultimo, a meeting was held in Dallas to consider the project of a railroad from the Cross Roads, a point on the Air Line near Wooten's, via Dallas and Brevard Station on the Carolina Central, toMooresville, to connect with the North Carolina Midland. The meeting was unanimously in favor of the project. A company was formed to be called the Wooten, Mooresville and Dallas Railroad Company. The capital stock, it was determined, should be fixed at $510,(MX) in shares of $100. The following were appointed a board of directors: William Jenkins, Jonas Hoffman, George F. Bason, B. F. Carpenter, Alexander Brevard and Joseph G. Morrison. A number of liberal subscriptions were made. ? The New York Herald of the 2Sth says: "The King's Mountain Mining Company, of No. 52 Broadway, has been placed in the hands of a receiver?Tor. than Brownell?by Judge Sufl?rwif?k nf tlie s .ofirior Court, on the an plication of Chauncey T. Haven, one of the creditors. The company was incorporated 1 September 10, 1877, with a capital stock of i $1,200,000. It had oOO acres of mineral lands : in Gaston, X. C., the buildings and improvements on which were valued at $200,000. Mr. | Andrew G. Curtin was president, W. F. Hnck-; ley vice-president, and Spencer Trask treas- 1 urer. The last sale of the stock of the com-11 pany at the New York Mining Exchange was j1 on December 2'lrd, 3(X> shares having been sold 1 at sixty cents per share.*' j1 MERE* MENTION. < Hon. A. T. Ackerman died at his home in Cartersville, Georgia, on the night of the 21st ,' ultimo, after a week's sickness from intlamma- < tory rheumatism. He was Attorney-Gener- < al during Grant's lirst term as President, and leader of the Republican party in Geof-! i gia. Brooklyn, N. Y., bad nearly 1 .(MM? 1 cases of diphtheria within six weeks, .'!.'52 of them fatal. The Legislature of twenty- i eight States will be in session during the pies- 1 ent month. Snow fell last week at Port 1 Royal, Va., to the depth of thirty-six and a i half inches. ? There is said to be a heavy 1 emigration of white men from Alabama to t Louisiana. Jay Gould controls JUH'J miles ; of railroad. During the past year the Uni- t ted States exported 21)5,530,7118 gallons of pe- t troleum, valued at $2S,82b,945. A syndi- a cate has been formed by which a through line 1 is to be constructed which will give, it is s s>" Nlhe cities of St. Louis, Chicago and (.'in- t sinnati a short route to the Atlantic at Charles-11 ton, S. C. It has recently been definitely j Ascertained that during the late war, the Fed- t erals lost 327,1S4 men, and the Confederates i 209,000. Within the last ten years, the ; l>opulation of Georgia has increased three hun- 11 dred and fifty-eight thousand, and the increase ; i in taxable property last year was thirteen mil- i lions of dollars.?Ex-Judge Whitaker, who was once mayor of Atlanta and editor of the bnily Intelligencer, was locked up in the sta- ^ tion-house in Atlanta last week for stealing a t bottle of whiskey. Caspar Tachmann, who j < was exiled from Poland for participation in j the revolution of 1S3U and who was brigadiergeneral in the Confederate service, died on the j 22iul ultimo, iii his 85th year, at his home in ] SjH>ttsylvania, Va., where he had been living 1 for some years -in retirement. ? Dr. E. II. Chapin, the well known Unitarian preacher, of i New York, died in that city on the 27th ul- i timo. In Cincinnati, on Christmas day, 1 the elephant "Chief" that killed his keeper in ; Charlotte last fall, came near killing another ( employee of the circus, who ventured on too i familiar terms with theviciousanimal. ?The wheat and oat crops of Alabama are reported ( nc f-iiiin-os "The white race is erreatlv i overrated,''said si speaker in a Boston meet- i ing of negroes relative to the Cadet Whitaker , ease.?The people of Iowa adopted, at the 1 late election, an amendment to the State con- | stitntion making colored men ineligible to the i Legislature of that State. The Com- : missioned of Roads and Revenue in Putnam ' county, Georgia, have fixed the price for retail ; liquor license at $3,000 per annum. ? Thirtyone States of the thirty-eight in the Union now have biennial sessions of their Legislatures. THE SITUATION' IN' IRELAND. Affairs in Ireland are rapidly approaching a crisis. The English Government has thrown an army into the disaffected territory twice as large as she employed in her attempt to suppress the American Colonies in their struggle for independence, and it is doubtful if ever, since Waterloo, England has massed so many troops in any one enterprise as she has now stationed at her own doors to retain her sovereignty. The trial of Parnell and thirteen other leaders in the land movement, is now in progress at Dublin. The jury impannelled on the 2Sth ultimo, consists of both Catholics and Protestants and one Quaker, and it is reasonable to suppose that so far as relates to the composition of the jury, the prisoners will have a fair trial. In the preliminary proceedings, Chief Justice May read an address stating that after the misconception that had arisen as to what he said on a former occasion, he should not take part in the present trials. After Chief Justice May had finished reading, Justice Fitzgerald took the chief seat and the trials were proceeded with before him and Justice Barry. ' Attorney-General Law opened the case for the Crown, the reading of which occupied three days. He spoke in a firm and moderate tone, lie said the object of the conspiracy in which the prisoners were engaged, was to cause the social ex-communication of a number of persons, and to make their lives not worth having. lie pointed out the absurdity of the idea of parceling out Ireland among a population of live millions, which would only add to the misery of this unfortunate country. lie severely condemned the policy of the Land League, which he said advocated freedom, yet brought all its power to bear in the coercion of private individuals. The Government, he said, was bound to institute proceedings to put down wicked agitation. Continuing his address, on the 29th, he referred to the humble occupation of most of the prisoi1ers~aiTd sfrid, doubtless, they found agitation most profitable. lie warmly denounced agitation as an intolerable conspiracy. The intention of the Government, he said, in instituting these proceedings, was to protect the rich and poor alike from a frightful tyranny that resj>ected neither life nor proiKn ty. The people had been told not to accept Mr. O'Connell's dictum, that no farm was worth a drop of blood, and a few days after they were thus advised, Ferrick, the bailiff, was shot at Ballinrobe. The remarks of the Attorney-General at this point caused considerable feeling in the Court, especially when he (putted the reported words of J. W. Nally, one of the prisoners, that " Ferrick's murder was worth a hundred speeches." He further stigmatized the proceedings of Land Leagues as a capital plan for reducing society to original chaos and bringing about communism. He particularly pointed to Messrs. Breman, Boyton, Gordon, O'Sullivan and Xally, of the prisoners, as agitating with a view to pecuniary profit! He quoted tally's violent speech which immediately preceded Ferrick's murder, and then proceeded to deal with the violent speech attributed to Dillon and Parnell, !..?*!? (chA.n fl?n liiwl *l rPTIIPflv UUlll ill Mill/Ill otuu v i IV, I'v-t/jMv ? * J for tlieir grievances in their own hands. The former, lie said, had advised them to put no faith in the British Parliament, but to drill, lie cited various further passages of the speeches by these two members of Parliament, as exasperating the people into spoliation and murder. He quoted, amidst general laughter, from the speech of Mr. Biggar, who said he did not recommend the shooting of landlords, because wrong men had been sometimes shot. After quoting Mr. Harris' recommendation to the peasantry to emulate the example of the French in 171M, he said the Land League is founded upon a basis of sedition and treason. Mr. Parnell, who was given to expressing his opinions moderately, had himself declared that either the landlords or people must go, and it would be for the people themselves to decide which. The Court then adjourned at '1.J0 p. in., because the Attorney-General was fatigued. Mr. Parnell was loudly cheered on leaving the Court. Continuing his address on the BOtli, Mr. Law completed the reading of seventy-seven extracts from speeches of the traversers, showing that they all counseled the people to withhold their rent lie then quoted the judgment of Chief Justice Cockburn to the effect , that a conspiracy was the act of two or more ' l>ersons combining to injure a third party, , and that it was not necessary that the acts , done should be criminal. A mere combination to effect civil injury would be within the law. i He wished to read the opinion of Daniel j D'Coiinell on a proposed strike of farmers , against the rent roll, but this was not allowed | by the Court. Mr. Law proceeded to explain j < the punishments which the traversers advo-1 ' ::ated for those who took evicted farms, and J declared that one of the Traversers had been < L'ontinued in his post as the paid agent of the j Land League after having held persons up by j 1 name to popular execration and murder. lie . J dwelt with much effect upon the point that ( the traversers had given prominence to the 11 statement that if til),(MM! persons were enrolled , I iii tlu? League, 110 army could enforce land f laws. The Attorney-Heneral concluded liis open- ] ing speech on Friday. He said the principle I taught l?y members of the Land League had ( >een called American principles, but they ' night lie more properly deserilied as red Itepub- ( icanism or Nihilism. lie expressed the hope 1 hat when this mischievous new gospel was ( ibandoned, those whom it was now his duty J o prosecute, would turn their talents to a bet. er account for Irelands's sake. He concluded 1 vitli a forcible peroration, in which he said f le hoped the jury would be true to their con-1 J icienees and return a verdict satisfactory to , he country. The present disorder, he said. 1 i mist be put down, no matter at wliat cost. I \s be resumed his seat, there was no manifes-: ;ation of any kind. The Court adjourned intil Monday. The following late dispatches, showing the ictive preparations of the British Government, vould indicate that the situation is growing nore serious: The Dublin correspondent of the London Times says: The movements of the troops lave excited a very uneasy, feeling. It is generally lielieved that the government possesses information warranting the apprehension )f danger. The government has made very complete preparations for any emergency, immense supplies of provisions, tents and ither campaigning requisites 1mv. been stored ^ T. ..*..4.^.1 4-1...4* ..11 llwua ill CtllU'ill UCpUlS. 11 la Blilicu Liinh <111 Hiv reparations point to the conclusion that the government believes that far greater danger ilian is seen lurks behind. A store-ship lias irrived from Woolwich with 20,000 rounds of juckshot and a large quantity of ball, cartridges and entrenching tools. Another vessel is siiiping a similar cargo at Woolwich for new stations at Bruff, Mohill, Carrick-on-Shannon ind Ballyshannon, which will be occupied by troops. These positions are well chosen, being the centres of the disturbed districts from which troops could operate in various directions. At all stations where cavalry are jiiartered without infantry, the supply of ammunition will be increased fifty rounds per man. The barrack accommodation in the country is insufficient for the increased number of soldiers. TeiniHiniry barracks will, therefore, be litted at Rathkeal, County Limerick, and Ennesly and County Clare, for details of detachments of infantry, each comprising two officers and fifty men. Another detachment will be sent to Loughrea, County Galway, as soon us quarters for them liavd l>een provided. The military correapudent of the Irish Thucs, under date ^ of Friday, says that the authorities contemplate the dispatch of a flying column over the country almost immediately, as was done during the Fenian rising. It is.said that every step necessary for the movement is already arranged. Nine companies will be started, each comprising one troop of cavalry, a division of artillery, with two guns, four companies of infantry, ten sappers and a detachment of army service. IN JAIL FOR MURDER. At Napoleon, Ohio, on the night before Christmas, Gen. Robert K. Scott, one of the carpet-bag Governors of South Carolina, and now a resident of Napoleon, Ohio, shot andkilled a young man named Drury. The telegram first announcing the affair stated that intense excitement prevailed in consequence of the shooting, and that Scott was taken to Defiance for safe keeping, there being talk of lynching him at Napoleon. A special dispatch from Defiance, to the New York Herald, gives the following particulars of the tragedy : Ymir ooiTftsnondent called unon Governor Scott to-day and was referred to his attorney, C. H. Scribner, of Toledo, who is here, and whose statement of the tragedy at Napoleon, Ohio, on Christmas morning, is as follows: Governor Scott, wife and son are boarding at the Miller House, in Napoleon. The son is about fifteen years of age. On Friday evening there was a great deal of bad conduct on the streets, the young men of the place drinking and carousing, with a great deal of loud talk. Mrs. Scott became alarmed at the absence of her son, and got a hotel clerk named Stout to look for him. The-Governor had retired, and some time after, hearing persons uttering threats on .the street about shooting Stout, Mrs. Scott, urged him to go and hunt the boy. The Governor dressed himself, and, having found Stout, inquired if he had found his son. Stout said that he had, and had brought him to the hotel, but a clerk at a drug store named Drury had got him away from him. The Governor started out in search of the boy, and w.is informed by a young man on the street that Drury had him in the drug store. The Governor went to the front door, rattled and called, and dually succeeded in arousing the clerk, who opened the door and said the boy was not there, and insisted upon the truth of his statement. Governor Scott told him that from information he had, he knew he was there, at the same time walking toward the rear efid bfTiii again telling the young man he must find his boy and take him iiome. The Governor started to go to the door opening from the rear of the storeroom into another room, when young Drury placed himself before him and told him if he attempted to enter that room it was at his peril. Again the Governor told him he must get his boy, and made a movement as if to enter the room. Drury reached over, as if to take a weight or other weapon from the counter, and at the same time made a movement like drawing a pistol from his pocket. At the same moment, Governor Scott drew a pistol from his overcoat pocket, when it accidentally exploded. The Governor says that Jiis first thought was that he had been fired aCTiy some one, but soon saw that the young man was hurt, as he sank back on the floor. Immediately afterward the Governor heard his son calling from up stairs. He went into a backroom and up the stairway, and found his son in an intoxicated condition locked in a room at the head of the stairs. He brought him down, hurried him to the hotel and sent men over to see how badly the young man was hurt. They found him dead. On examination the surgeon found the ball had entered under the left jaw, ranging upward into the brain, showing that the pistol was not fired 011 a level. Governor Scott was brought here last evening by the authorities and has lieen placed in confinement here over Sunday. Young Drury was to have gone to Pittsburg in a few days to marry Miss Luckey, daughter of Prof. Luckey, Superintendent of the public schools of that city. She is a teacher in the High School. When informed of her lover's violent death she swooned away, and is said to have remained insensible several hours. Drury was a Mason, and after the post-mortem examination that fraternity took charge of the body, arrayed in the suit which was to have been his wedding dress, and sent him to Elmore, O., Ins former home, where he was buried on Tuesday. On Monday following the homicide, Scott laid a hearing at Napoleon before Justice Payton, who pronounced the deed murder in the first degree and committed Scott to jail. The following further particulars of the affair are furnished by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Guzrtte on Monday after the tragedy : All North-Western Ohio is intensely stirred up over the tragic fate of young Drury, who was to have been married to-morrow to Miss Dora Luckey, an estiinnble and highly accomplished young lady, who has recently lieen teaching in the public schools of Pittsburg. She had resigned her position and was to have come West to-day. The young lady's mother had been opposed to the marriage until recently, but it was arranged that after the marriage ceremony had been performed at the Hotel Madison, in Toledo, Mrs. Luckey was to step out and tender her congratulations and blessings upon the young people. Drury seems to have had a presentment of his fate, or at least trouble from some source, us he had been threatened by some of the - - ? ' I- - 1 1 l.:? young lady's relatives m cast- ue pusueu ma suit. It lias trans|>ired that oil Friday, when :i telegram was handed him, which proved to be from his atlianced, with reference to meeting her in Toledo, lie remarked to a friend that 'next Tuesday he would either be married or lead." In less than twenty-four hours his lifeless body was found lying in his employer's ling store, weltering in pools of blood. On bo-morrow his funeral will take place, the day < in which he was to have lieen married. Saturday, as may be readily imagined, was j1 die gloomiest holiday ever experienced in Na-1 (oleon. There was nobody to say "Merry '. Christinas." Yesterday was very quiet and I irderly in town, compared to the day previous, j' jut 1 find that the strong feeling which at . irst set against Governor Scott has merely i uibsided, not passed away. This has been i iggravated by the fact that the Governor I assed by the fallen body of Drury and took ' lis son to the hotel without paying any at- i ention to the deceased; but the principal \ jause of the feeling was the fact of the (loverlor's wealth and infiuence, many old and sule,' itantial citizens of the town and county de-!: laring in an excited manner that the prisoner | ] ivould be able to buy his way out. However, , ] >thers suggest that the Governor could have j, dosed up the drug store immediately after tlie !' shooting, and with a horse and buggy, ?ot |{ iway to Canada before the affair would have s jeen discovered next morning, or if lit'had j said nothing about it, there would have'been 10 direct evidence against him. Tlie latter j ?oiiits are in favor of the Governor, wKo was i 1 villing and anxious to appear before thjfe coro-1 ier on" Saturday, but his attorneys advised not. I ] / i-N LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. F. H. Brown and B. C. Pressley?Administrators' Notice. Rev. W. G. White?Yorkville Female College. M. Strauss?Happy New Year to All. Latimer A Hemphill ?Happy New Year to All? Our Grocery. John C. Kuykendal?That York Drugstore. Hunter, Oates A Co.?New Firm. Clark Brothers?1881?By the Package?Wagons. T. M Dobson?Listen to the New York House. Mrs. Fannie L. Dobson?Proprietor of Emporium of Fashion. J. J.Smith A Co.?A Happy New Year?Wanted. Kennedy Bros. A Barron? Happv New Year to All?Winter Clothing?Dead?Wagons. F. Happertield?The York Marble Yard. Finley, Harvey A Co., Atlanta, Ga.?Agents Wanted. Herndon Bros.?1881?Well?A Reminder. Latta Bros.?Family Groceries and Plantation Supplies?Just Received. James Scoggins, W. W. White, A. F. T 'ndsay, County Commissioners?Townshi, Election. R. Lathan, School Commissioner.?Notice. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The new board of county commissioners organized on Monday la.st, by electing J.'M. Jackson chairman, and Dr. J. R Allison clerk. CHANGE OF AGENTS. r k in ? r.n 11 1 ..AH", j\. r. i>ici>t)iuiKii na? ivca'i'itu 4.11c jn>sition of railroad agent at the dei>ot in tliis place, vice Mr. H. II. Beard, who in the future will have control of the telegraph office. FINE OYSTERS. Mr. Fernando X. Jngold, of the Southern Express, and whose "run" is in the oyster country, rememliered us kindly at Christinas by sending us a bucket of the linest oysters that ever tickled the palate of an epicure, for which he has our thanks. THE CONTESTED ELECTION. The contested electon case from Broad River township, in regard to the adoption of the fence law in that township, was heard lief ore the county commissioners 011 the :27th ultimo, and by their decision the election was declared valid. The township gave a majority of 40 in favor of adopting the no-fence system. * ? ? ? MASONIC. Buffalo Lodge, A. F. M., at Black's Station, has elected the following officers for the year 1S81: C. M. Green, W. M.; J. W. Rhyne, S. W.; J. A. Deal, .1. W. ; II. Martin, Treasurer : W. D. Camp, S.; James Martin, S. 1). ; W. II. Carroll, J. D.; G. M. Moore and II. II. Moore, Stewards ; James G. Baber, Tiler. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Oliver J. Hart, Jr., who for the past two or three years has lieen a resident of Yorkville, has accepted a clerkship in the law office of Messrs. Melton & Clark, of Columbia. Mr. Ilart is a younger brother of G. \V. S. Hart, Esq., and during his stay in this place, gained the high esteem of all with whom he liecame acquainted. He takes with him in his new field the best wishes of many friends. Rev. Marion Dargan, appointed at the recent conference as pastor of the M. E. Church at this place, has arrived and entered upon his pastoral duties. CHURCHES NEXT SUNDAY. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular apjiointment at Tirzah next Sunday. f Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor, Services at the usual hours, morningand evenin fr "'fc. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. District quarterly meeting, commencing on Saturday, on which occasion the Presiding Elder will be present. Church of the Good Shepherd?EpiscopalRev. It. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and afternoon. mill And gin burned. On the night of the 21st ultimo, tlw mill and cotton gin of Mr. Thos. P. Whitesides, situated on Buckhorn Fork of Bullock's Creek, six miles north-west of town, were entirely consumed by fire. Mr. Whitesides lives about half a mile distant from the mill, and his miller a distance of only about 80 yards. The fire was discovered by Monroe Jackson, colored, about 10 o'clock at night. As the mill was run by water power, and there had been no fire on the premises that day, the affair is enveloped in some mystery. Besides the mill property, seven bales of unginned cotton, a quantit} cotton seed and prain were destroyed. The loss will amount to about $2,500. i . the weather. Xot since the winter of 1870 has this section lieen visited by as rough a spell of weather as is now upon us. On Christmas day snow fell to the depth of three or four inches, which was augmented by subsequent falls until the 29th, when the average depth was eight | inches. In addition to the snow and rain that fell, the weather was intensely cold?the lowest state of temperature being reached on Wednesday morning the 29th, when the thermometer indicated 8 degrees below zero. The cold wave seems to have been general throughout the country, and Wednesday and Thursday of last week the coldest days of the winter. At Philadelphia it marked 5 degrees below zero, and in Lehigh and .Schuylkill re gion, Pennsylvania, tue average temjierature wjis 8 degrees below zero. At Wilmington, N. C., there was sliglit snow, and the thermometer indicated a temperature of 17 degrees. At Charleston, it indicated 15 degrees?a fall of 27. At Montgomery, Ala., it was 8 degrees, and at Galveston 21. At Jacksonville, Fla., the weather was the coldest experienced since 1857. The tliermometer was lit degrees above zero. Oranges on trees in the city were frozen, though 100 miles south the fruit was not injured. The weather has somewhat moderated, but we are yet in the midst of a cold spell. SALFS-DAY. Notwithstanding the 'inclemency of the weather on Monday last?sales-day for January?there Wiis a very large attendance of jieople in town, many of whom were attracted by the huge amount of property advertised to be sold. By virtue of writ of fieri facias, the sheriff sold the interest of Mrs. Diana N. Beard in a tract of land in Broad River township. Bought by W. T. M. Beard form On complaint for partition, the Clerk sold the real estate of Elizalieth Rhea, deceased, as follows: Home place, 115 acres, bought byM. R. Nichols, at $9.(55 per acre. Forty acres, supposed to be on east side of Bullock's Creek, to J. B. "VVhitesides, at $25.!K)$ per acre. Forty acres, supposed to lie on west side of Bullock's creek, at $29.75 per acre. Pursuant to the order, judgment and decree in the case of Allen B. Crosby vs. Jno S. Crosby and others, the Clerk sola the loiiowmg lands of estate of Dennis Crosby, deceased: Tract No. 1?"Home" place, 138 acres, bought by D. II. Carroll at #*20 j>er acre. Tract No. 2?part of Blair tract, 114 acres, bought by John T. Whitesides at $2.85 per acre. Tract No. 3?part of Blair tract, 100 acres, jouglit by Hugh E. Davidson at ?3.05 i>er icre. Tract No. 4?"Hogg" place, 12*2 acres, Knight by John T. Whitesides at ?5.25 j>er icre. Tract No 5?"Granny Hogg" place, 14} acres, l>ought by John T. Whitesides at ?1 >er acre. Also, one tract of 00 acres, bought >y A. B. Crosby at ?3.50 per acre ; one of 03 lores, bought by E. N. Davidson at $13.05 per icre; one of 63 acres, bought by E. N. Davidion at $10.70 per acre. The Clerk then offered the lands of the King's Mountain Iron Company, which were aid off as follows: Tract No. 1?12 acres, bought by Richard fllack at ?15.10 per acre. Tract No. 2?39 acres, bought by W. W. ; Gaffney at $10 per acre. Tract No. 3?54 acres, bought by B. "W. Baber at $10 per acre. Tract No. 4?111 acres, bought by J. G. Baber at $0.10 per acre. Tract No. 5?45 acres, bought by Ira Hardin at $11.05 i>er acre. Tract No. 0?05 acres, bought by J. W. Thomson at $7.30 per acre. Tract No. 7?38 acres, bought by C. E. Spencer at $12 per acre. " Tract No. 8?20-acres, txnight by C. E. Silencer at $12.85 per acre. Tract No. 9?20acres, bought by C. E.Spencer at $11.05 per acr$. Tract No. 10?50 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $8.50 per acre. Tract No. 11?50 acres, bought by W. IV. Gaffney at $8 per acre. Tract No. 12?00 acres, bought by W. W. uanney at *>o.<opei acre. Tract No 13.?53 acres, bought by It. J. Latta at $7.30 per acre. Tract No. 14?50 acres, bought* by H. M. Moss at $8 80 per acre. Tract No 15?94 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffneyat 89.50 per acre. Tract No. 10?59 acres, bought by J. J. Whisonant at $9.50 per acre. Tract No. 17?132 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $5.50 per acre. Tract No. 18?137 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $4.50 per acre. Tract N6. 19?101 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $3.75per acre. Tract No. 20?172 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $2 per acre. Tract No. 21?33 acres, bought by IV. W. Gaffney $2.50 per acre. Tract No. 22?82 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $2 per acre. Tract No. 23?103 acres, bought by J. J. Whisonant at $3.00 per .acre. ? ^ Tract No. 24?; 118 acres, bought by W. *W. Gaffney at $2 per acre. Tract No. 25?100 acres, beught by John A. Latta at $2.50 i>er acre. Tract No. 20?131 acres, bought by IV. W. Gaffney at $2.50 per acre. Trrtfct No. 27?95 acres, bought by John A. Latta at $2.25 per acre. Trsict No. 28?110 acres, bought by AV. W. Gaffney at $2.00 per acre. Tract No. 29?104 acres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney, sit $2.00 j>er acre. Trsict No. 30-A?350 acres, bought by J. A. Deal sit $3.25 per sicre. TractNo. 30-13?5430 acres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney sit $1 per acre. Tract No. 31?27 acres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney at $2.50 per acre. Tract No. 32?238 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $2 j>er acre. Tract No. 33?020 acres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney sit <30 cents per acre. Trsict No. 34?78 sicres, bought by W. B. Wilson, Jr*, sit $1.20 per acre. Tract No. 35?131 sicres, bought by W. W. Gaffney sit 82 per acre. Trsict No. 30?129 sicres, bought by J. F. Wallace at $3 per acre. Tract No 37?1:30 acres, bought by Joseph Black at $2.25^per acre. Tract No. 38?132 acres, bought by W. W Gaffney at $1 per acre. Trsict No. 39?322 sicres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney at $4 per acre. Trsict No. 40?1(38 acres, bought by D. C. McKinney sit $1.25 per acre. Tract No. 41?271 acres, bought by W. W. Gsiffney at $1 per acre. Tract No. 42?575 acres, bought by W. W uanney at 5*1 per acre. Tract No. 43?218 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at #2.10 per acre. Tract No. 44?397 acres, bought by W. TV. Gaffney at #1.30 per acre. Tract No. 45?70 acres, bought by VV. W. Gaffney at #2.05 per acre. Tract No. 46?170 acres, bought by C. E. Spencer at #2.50 per acre. Tract No. 47?91 acres, bought by VV. VV. Gaffney at #2.00 per acre. Tract No. 48?38 acres, bought by VV. W. Gaffney at 20 cents per acre. Tract No. 49?88 acres, bought by "VV. W. Gaffney at #1.15 per acre. Tr;tct No. 50?70 acres, bought by W. VV. Gaffney at $2.00 per acre. Tract No. 51?175 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $1.35 per acre. Tract No. 52?86 acres, bought by W. W. Gaffney at $3.50 per acre. Tract No. 53?40 acres, bought by W. VV. Gaffney at $3.50 jwr acre. Tract No. 54?88 acres, boygbt by Ilenry, ' "VVh isonaliflK #4.4o per acre. Tract No. 55?155 acres, bought by Henry Whisonant at #4.30 i>er acre. Tract No. 50?158 acres, bought by W. VV. Gaffney at #1.80 i>er acre. Tract No. 57?82 acres, bought by "VV. "VV. Gaffney at $2.50 i>er acre. Tract No. 58?370 acres, bought by "VV. VV. Gaffney at #3.00 |>er acre. Tract No. 59?208 acres, bought by TV. II. Carroll at #2.05 per acre. Tract No. (50?70 acres, bought by John Parker at #3.05 per acre. Tract No. (51?31 acres, bought by TV. TV. Gaffney at #1.50 per acre. Tract No. 02?284 acres, bought by TV. B. Wilson, Jr., at #1.10 per acre. Tract No. (53?103 acres, bought by TV. TV. Gaffney at #1.65 per acre. Tract No. 04?200 acres, bought by A. W. Moore at #1.90 per acre. Tract No. 65?138 acres, bought by Jordan Meacham at #3 per acre. Tract No. 66?142 acres, bought by TV. TV. Gaffney at $1 per acre. Tract No. 07?170 acres, bought by W. M. Faulkner at #3.25 per acre. Tract No. (58?183 acres, bought by TV. W. Gaffney at #1.40 per acre. Tract No. 09?87 acres, bought by Wm. Caldwell at #6.25 per acre. Tract No. 70?149 acres, bought by W. TV. Gaffney at #2 j>er acre. Tract No. 71?109 acres, bought by John A. Latta at #2.05 per acre. Tract No. 72?58 acres, bought by J. W. Dobson at #3.30 per .acre. Tract. "No. 73?45 acres, boueht bv W. M. McGill at $.'{.85 per acre. Tract No. 74?40 acres, bought by C. E. Spencer at 30 cents per acre. Tract No. 75?One-fourth of 14 acres, bought by John and Wm. Borders, for $128. Interest in the Mineral Ore Magnetic Iron Co., known as Quiun land, bought by W. B. Wilson, Jr.^for $41.25 Interest in Lime tract?known as Mrs. Eliza Long tract, bought by W. W. Gaffney for $101.50. Mineral*interest in tract of land belonging to Noah Hardin, bought by W. B. Wilson, Jr., for $20. Correspondence o( the Yorkvilfe Enquirer. LETTER FROM K0CK HILL. Rock Hill, S. C., January 3, 1881.?The last two weeks have been somewhat eventful in our town. The preparations for the Christmas holidays werE""tne liveliest everKnownr" Every one seemed to anticipate a joyous time. . It, therefore, w;is a perfect harvest to the ; dealers in holiday goods. The morn of the ; 25th dawned in every sense a Christmas day. A beautiful snow fell?the gladdening con- , summation to many a happy heart. The day ' was spent in mirthful sports by the young and , the old. The stores were all closed, and the , corps of young men turned loose. The time passed as merry ;is marriage bells. But at last j the joy of many was turned to sorrow and sad- , ness. Between the hours of 9 and 11 that night, . Robert Kitchens Gordon and one Ilowell, went to the livery stable lot of G. Baxter, and found there Andrew Cureton and Wm. Alexander, (both colored) the hostlers. Gordon and Howell wanted a horse. While at the i stable, however, Gordon and Ilowell quarreled and got to blows. Ilowell begged that Andrew Cureton would take Gordon off him, as Gordon seemed to have gotten Howell down and had drawn his pistol. The pistol was J taken from him and thrown to the back of the r room?a small office connected with the stable, I and in which the hostler slept. Gordon got c up and Howell lied. Cureton had hold of r Gordon, saying : "You must not tight in here; 1 I am your friend ; if you don't behave, I will d have to call the police." Gordon drew his 1 knife, and said, with an oath : "I will kill you; s turn me loose." Cureton caught the wrist of 1 the hand in which Gordon held the open knife, J c and rather pushed Gordon back to the door. 11 When the door was reached, Gordon set one 8 foot just outside. It seems that just then t Cureton released his hold on Gordon's hand, " and at that moment, as is supposed, Gordon 1' plunged the knife into the left side of Cure- n ton's neck, severing the large artery. Cureton said: "Mr. Gordon, you have cut me," and told the boy, Wm. Alexander, to go for ^ Dr. Fewell. The boy ran to the Doctor^ office and called. Some one heard him and ran for Dr. Crawford, f he boy returner! at once to where Cureton was, and found that he was dead. t Upon the door was lying the corpse of An- n drew Cureton, ihe victim of a cruel knife- t thrust, and beside him lay his slayer, the ap- 1 parent helpless pictim of King Alcohol. In o I a very short tirad Doctors Fewell and Cravrford were there : hut Cureton had passed beyond all human aid. Gordon was tdsen to the lock-up. A jury of inquest was simmoned, Trial Justice Fev.'ell acting- as coroner. There being but two material witnesies to examine, the jury soon arrived at a verdjct, to the effect that Andrew Cureton came tqhis death by a knife in the hands of Robert Kitchens Gordon, between the hours of {) aid 11 011 the night of the 25th of December, 18$). Mr. Cobb, the joramityiug constable, went to the lock-up about two hours after lie had committed Gordon, for the purpose of giving Gordon an extra supply of bed clothing, but to his amaftment he discovered the doors of the prison standiig wide open and the inmates gone. It is supiased it was the work of some of Gordon's frieids. Gordon has not been heard of since. On the morning following, the town was a?tir with the intelligence. Trial Justice Ferell was informed of the fact of the escai>e, anc he immediately published a reward of $100 fol the apprehension of Gordon aiid alsc commuiicated the facts to the Governor. On Sunday night, the 20th, some one broke into the stible of Dx. J. W. Fewell and stole horse, saddfc and bridle, and kept them until Thursday tight, when they were all brought back andleft in the lot. The horse had not been ill teated, notwithstanding the severely cold weaher. Speaking of theweather, I am informed that never before in tie history of this section has the thermometer registered zero. On two days it registeredS and 5 degrees below zero. This protracted s|ell of intensely cold weather has unfitted ev<ry body in every avocation for business; in fact, business lias been virtually suspended fonlie past two weeks. Several changed in business circles have taken place. Mr. Xllen Jones, of the firm of J. M. Ivy & Co., his withdrawn. Dr. T. C. Robertson, of the Ihn of T. C. Robertson & Co., has withdrawn A new firm has been formed?Jones & R4jertson?who wflljlealjui groceries and fanrifr supplies, banking* aiirf commission business They will occupy the new brick building recently erected by Dr. Robertson. J. Bony Join ison will continue the drug business iu his own name, in the same building. He it a worthy young man, and deserves the p&ronage of the people. Four years ago he begin business as a clerk in the drag stoie of 1>. T. C. Robertson. Mr. Johnson was cradled in the town of Yorkville, and is but the cBld of adoption in Rock Hill. He is a graduate in pharmacy and conducts the drug busimss successfully. Many changes have take plare in the private residences ef our citizeni. Four new cottages, the property of Maj. t. H. White, are now about completed. Tley will lie occupied at once. The machinery for lie cotton fiictory is u route. The compauy apeet to commence ulcerations by the first of March. Rev. It. E. Cooper las moved to our town. He has rented his Ebaiezer home. He will continue Ills pasionu Uiir^e w uubii buiuuiica) us heretofore. Our people are delighted to liave Rev. J. M. Boyt, pastor of the M. E. Church, with us again lor another year. "We are loth to have him letve us at all. The question now agiiating the minds of our citizens is the anti-liqu?r ticket.at the coming municipal election. ^Iso is our sister town, Chester., deeply stirred upon the same question, and the friends <f temperance in chat good town assert their htention to use Herculean efforts to prevent tie promiscuous sale of whisky. ! Lux. ? ? Correspondence of Ihs I' orkville Enquirer. ' LETTER FROK CHESTER. Chester, S. C., Jin nary 3, 1881.?The Christmas and New Yey: holidays passed off pleasantly and without any accident to mar the gayrties of the festve season. The b'hoys j made a tour of the tovsn, indulging in snow- t balling and similar spoit?the heavy snow that had fallen furnishing ample opportunity for them to enjoy themselves to their hearts' content. ;: , The cold was more htense than has been known here for several years. Catawba river was frozen over. The boat used at the crossing of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, over this stream, was frozen in ice strong enough to support a man's weight., This road having been completed to Lancaster, the couvictsemployed on it were returned to the penitentiary last week. They were treated to a Christmas dinner, at Lancaster. line of the coivicts, wlia rendered, efficient ' aid to a guard, lias received, a pardon Jrom the Governor, and will be given employment on the road. ' The Christmas tree and concert at the Methodist Chirdh was a delightful entertainment. Rev. A. H. Lester, former pastor of that church, left last week for his new charge in Marion. His successor. Rev. G. T. Harmon, occupied the pulpit of the church at the service yesterday. Chestef. EDITORIAL UKL1NGS. Interesting Irish Statistics.^ A recent writer gives the following facts and statistics pertaining to Ireland and the land-tenure system under which the island is governed, which will prove of interest at the . present time: The \rhole island of Ireland consists of :H),327,764 acres of land, of which 4,830,059 acres are bog, mountain, water, roads and fences. In 1876 a return was male to the Brit ish Parliament (No. 42*2) skowiij; the number of landlords or owners of land it Ireland. There were at that time (four years ago) 68,711 owners. But 36,144 of these, more than half the whole number, held each only one rood of land; they are merely house owners. Half die entire island is held by 750 persons?and 70 per cent, of these are absentees. The population of Ireland (fast census) was 5,3*27,077. According to a report to Parlii*ment in 1870, there were in Ieland 4,286,015 persons living wholly by agricdture?or more than 75 per cent, of the whole population. Another report, in 1870, shewed the tenure of the farmers' holdings. The total holdings were 682 *237. Of these *20,217j or 3 per cent, of the whole, were held by ppprietors or in fee; 135,39*2, or 19 i>er cenii' were held by lease; and 526,928 holders, or over 77 percent, of the whole, were held utterlj at the will of the landlord. Examine these facts, and ttt hopeless misery of Ireland under the preset system stands out in lines of fire. The who! island (except those holdings of one rood of pnd) is owned by some 32,000 persons. But hore. than half the island is owned by 750 penons; and more than half of these simply dnw their back rents from the country, and sfend every farthing of the money abroad. 1 The English Parliament, by in unparalleled system of merciless destruction wiped out of Ireland the existence of maiufactures (see Lecky's History of the Eightenth Century,) so^tlmt .now, "more than 75 }er cent, of the whole population live on fans, and of the farms over 77 per cent., with a'least 3,000,000 . persons, have no tenure savefthe capricious will of the landlords. This means that any time ujited action by 300 or 400 landlords would riider houseless and homeless 3,000,000 indultrious people, who, from the absence of any (ther means of living, by manufactures, etc., fvould have to 3tarve or emigrate, or agree toi>ay the highest jack-rent demanded. Suck uited action by the landlords may be expected ts the coming joercion act leaves at the merqi of the owners ;he unfortunate tenants who dred think their iouls were their own. NEW LAWS OF THE STATE. Vn Act to Make it a Miso'eineiior to Entice or Persuade a Laborer to Leave !he Employment of Another, or to Employ a laborer tinder Contract with Another. Be it enacted by the Senae and House of Representatives of the Stated South Carolina, iow met and sitting in Geneal Assembly, and ?y the authority of the same That any person ir persons who snail enuceo persuaue, oy any neans whatsoever, any tenait or tenants, ia>orer or laborers under contact with another, luly entered into between tie parties in the iresence of one or more vitnesses, jvhetlier uch contract be verbal or h writing, to vioute such contract, ox* shall enploy any laborer r laborers, knowing him, ler or them to be mder contract with anothei, shall be deemed riiilty of a misdemeanor, ani upon conviction hereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five lor more than one hundred dollars, or be imrisoned in the countj jail not. less than ten or more than thirty dbyg. Approved December 24,188(1? I Joint Resolution to direct, authorize and empower the (Jomptrdler General to dispose of (certain railroad and tank Btoct, and pay over the proceeds to the Cmnty Treasurer of York county. Whereas, John Bliir, late of York Couny, deceased, did by Ks last will and test anent bequeath thirty <10) shades of stock in he South Carolina Riilroad to the General > Lssembly of South Caolina, tor the purposes A f a free; school to be heated in the town M A